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WORLD HABITAT DAY
A E. Chandrasekharan

Matter Minister for Revenue & Housing

of Life

and Death World Habitat day is observed

on the 5th of October. This is a
movement to reflect on the
future of cities and towns.

The theme of this year’s World As Covid-19 has been spreading, that influence health outcomes
Habitat day is ‘housing for all: we are told to stay at home safely. which determine vulnerability to
better urban future’. The selection But this measure is not possible diseases.
of the theme could not have been for a large section of the people
more befitting as 95 % of the who do not have an adequate India is witnessing a rapid increase
reported cases of the Covid-19 are house. Now the house is not just in the urban population. As per
in the urban area. In the context a roof over one’s head. It is an 2011 census and UN reports, 30%
of the spread of Covid-19, U N embodiment of safety and security of the Indian population live in
habitat observes that ‘having an and also a mark of sustenance cities. It is expected to grow by
adequate home is, now more than of living, working and learning. 50% by 2050. Kerala is a different
ever, a matter of life and death’. Housing is one of the key factors state with peculiar geographical

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